Job Description Summary

The Sr Engineer - Mechanical Engineering position is in Nacelle & Frames team within Wind Machine Head Engineering Subsystem. The team provides full lifecycle ownership and support for mechanical hardware (Nacelle-Composite Cover, Main Frame, Small Structures, Cranes, Seals & Louvers…) including New Product/Technology Introduction, Validation & Testing, Field Support and Root Cause Analysis.

The Sr Engineer - Mechanical Engineering will be responsible for design and development of mechanical components with full exposure to product life cycle. Guide and mentor team by providing technical guidance working with diverse, cross-functional teams to execute component trade studies and design deliverables.

Job Description

The Sr Engineer - Mechanical Engineering position is in Nacelle & Frames team within Wind Machine Head Engineering Subsystem. The team provides full lifecycle ownership and support for mechanical hardware (Nacelle-Composite Cover, Main Frame, Small Structures, Cranes, Seals & Louvers…) including New Product/Technology Introduction, Validation & Testing, Field Support and Root Cause Analysis.

 

The Sr Engineer - Mechanical Engineering will be responsible for design and development of mechanical components with full exposure to product life cycle. Guide and mentor team by providing technical guidance working with diverse, cross-functional teams to execute component trade studies and design deliverables.

As a Sr Engineer - Mechanical Engineering you will: 

• Design engineering solutions for mechanical structural parts (Composites, Metallic Structures, Cranes, Seals & Louvers…) of a wind turbine.
• Work closely with other engineering teams within GE Wind to coordinate interfaces between mechanical systems and components.
• Develop engineering drawings and specification requirements for sourcing of wind turbine components.
• Perform technical risk assessment and execute validation test plans to mitigate risks.
• Assist in issue resolution of mechanical components for fielded turbines.
• Guide and mentor team in technical problem solving.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams for managing the product life cycle, including prime contributor to component team strategy, Multigeneration Product Plan (MGPP) and Multigeneration Technology Plan (MGTP).
• Collaboration with System, Sub-System, and component Engineers to integrate components into overall turbine design while satisfying turbine and interface requirements.
• Maintain “Systems Thinking” mindset and higher-level turbine system requirements to understand the needs and implications of potential component changes and impacts to the rest of the machine.
• Ownership of design tool maintenance to ensure “fit for use” including design practice, design tools and lessons learned documentation updates.  
• Own risk identification and mitigation process including dFMEA and design verification.
• Ensure quality of new and revised drawings, BoMs and specifications applying all GE and industry processes, standards and best practices

 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor/ Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related Engineering.
• Minimum 10 years product design and development experience with 7 years in the wind industry or relevant industry in product design.
• Proficient in FEA with solid experience in complex models
• Strong experience in Frequency Domain Methods
• Proven experience as Frames Ownership

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and project management skills
• Working knowledge of CAD (preferably Unigraphics NX 3D-CAD), CAE (preferably Ansys) and PLM tools
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of time

 

Desired Characteristics:

• Wind turbine structural component expertise
• Technical problem solving experience including NPI design, NTI development, problem solving & RCA resolution, method/tool development, and related items
• Highly motivated, self-starter, energetic, positive, flexible in changing environments.
• Proven track record of structured approach to problem solving, learning agility and system thinking
• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate technical problems in clear and simple terms
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work in project teams in an international environment
• Strong systems thinker: ability to assess tradeoffs, effectively assess risk, and optimize results.
• Proven ability to drive process improvement, standard work, and utilize Lean design principles.

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